Lufengosaurus facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Lufengosaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic 190Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Holotype of L. huenei on display at the Paleozoological Museum of China.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Suborder:	†Sauropodomorpha
Family:	†Massospondylidae
Genus:	†Lufengosaurus Young, 1941
Species
†L. huenei Young, 1941(type) †L. magnus Young, 1947
Synonyms
Tawasaurus Young, 1982 ?Gyposaurus Broom, 1911

Lufengosaurus magnus

Lufengosaurus is a genus of early sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic of China. It lived in the earliest Lower Jurassic in what is now southwestern China.

Lufengosaurus was an omnivore. The largest Lufengosaurus skeleton is 6 metres (20 ft) long, 4 metres (13 ft) high and 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) wide. It weighted about 200 kilograms (440 lb). It could probably walk upright based on its powerful rear legs.

It was the first complete dinosaur skeleton mounted in China, and first time a dinosaur was depicted on a stamp.

Images for kids

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  Lufengosaurus in a quadrupedal pose, skeleton donated to the Hong Kong Science Museum in 1998

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  Lufengosaurus magnus skull, Beijing Museum of Natural History

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  Lufengosaurus huenei pelvis.

See also

In Spanish: Lufengosaurus para niños